August 30, 2008

As we have promised, the official release of the best third-party SSIS library is here. We would like to thank those customers who are already running the new release on their production machines, for the trust they have put behind our effort. The library is available for download here.

The new release includes 11 new components. In addition to that we are also releasing SSIS+ 1.3 for SQL Server 2008. We are the first third-party company to support the recently released SQL Server 2008 platform. The cost of the perpertual license for the new 1.3 release is set at $499.95. The cost of the premium support option and CozyRoc SSIS+ Ultimate Package remain the same.

Here is list of fixes and changes between Beta 5 and the official release:

August 18, 2008

We have released Beta 5 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . It includes small fixes to the licensing code and OpenPGP Task. The major difference is the inclusion of Script Task Plus and Data Flow Task Plus in SSIS+ 1.3 for SQL Server 2008. We will spare you the gory details, but say it was quite challenging technical feat to accomplish. We are happy to have these powerful components as part of the soon-to-be official SSIS+ 1.3 release.

July 28, 2008

We have created a script, which simplifies the process of checking for existence of remote FTP files. You can use either SSH or FTPS connections. If the remote file exists, the result of task execution is success. Otherwise it is set to failure.

We have released Beta 4 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . It includes a long awaited support for FTP over SSL (FTPS). The new FTPS Connection Manager supports both Explicit and Implicit FTPS connections. We have also updated the SFTP Task to include support for the new FTPS connections.

July 18, 2008

We have released Beta 3 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . The release includes new component for reading and processing of EDI format files. The release includes also a fix where the OpenPGP Task failed to decrypt packages, which were both encrypted and signed.

We are getting close to our official release, so we would like to ask for your assistance and report the issues you encounter. We appreciate it.

July 7, 2008

You have probably already seen this scenario. You want to load data, do transformations over it and then enumerate the result data flow in a standard for each loop container. The recommended Microsoft solution is to direct your data flow to in-memory ADO recordset destination component and then setup the for each loop container to iterate the result ADO recordset. As you probably understand this solution has one major shortcoming. It is extremely memory intensive and has unpredictable performance. Wouldn’t be great if somehow the data being processed in a data flow can be send directly for processing in foreach loop enumeration, without intermediate steps requiring additional memory consumption?

Well, thanks to the enhancements our SSIS+ 1.3 library brings, it is now possible to do it. We have created an SSIS script task, which creates wrapper object over standard DataReader Destination component. The object is then stored in package variable and can be used in your enumeration container control flows. The script is available for download here. Enjoy.

We have released Beta 2 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . The release includes new components for communication with Jabber clients and management of Stream objects. The release includes also fix for the OpenPGP Task not reporting enough information when having an error.